How to format your references using the BMC International Health and Human Rights citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for BMC International Health and Human Rights. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. McNab BK. Energy constraints on carnivore diet. Nature. 2000;407:584.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Suzuki Y, Nijhout HF. Evolution of a polyphenism by genetic accommodation. Science. 2006;311:650–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Rojas JP, Torres Sevilla GA, Hussain MM. Can we build a truly high performance computer which is flexible and transparent? Sci Rep. 2013;3:2609.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wu CM, Chen WJ, Zheng Y, Ma DC, Wang B, Liu JY, et al. Controllability of vortex domain structure in ferroelectric nanodot: fruitful domain patterns and transformation paths. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3946.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Merritt C. Process Steam Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Faro SH, Mohamed FB, editors. BOLD fMRI: A Guide to Functional Imaging for Neuroscientists. New York, NY: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Mekid S, Starr A, Pietruszkiewicz R. Intelligent Wireless Sensors. In: Holmberg K, Adgar A, Arnaiz A, Jantunen E, Mascolo J, Mekid S, editors. E-maintenance. London: Springer; 2010. p. 83–123.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for BMC International Health and Human Rights.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Five Ways Science Can Help You Raise Healthy Children. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/five-ways-science-can-help-you-raise-healthy-children/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Drug Testing: Undercover Tests Reveal Significant Vulnerabilities in DOT’s Drug Testing Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Zhou Y. Resource Management in Wireless Networks: Queue Management and Scheduling in Mesh Networks and Multi-Access Control in Internetworking Systems. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Lyall S. Olympic Fears Rattle Athletes and Families. New York Times. 2014;:A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	BMC International Health and Human Rights
Abbreviation	BMC Int. Health Hum. Rights
ISSN (online)	1472-698X
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health